How could a creature without auditory apparatus respond to sound waves?

But the Tellarites, despite their apparently lack of auditory apparatus, had rather sharp hearing.

He was the first to work out the exact natural positions of the auditory apparatus of animals and humans.

But it hurt the less-sophisticated human auditory apparatus.

The cause is thought to be thermoelastic expansion of portions of auditory apparatus.

They may have no auditory apparatus.

Frank also did work on the oscillatory characteristics of the auditory apparatus of the ear and the thermodynamics of muscle.

They know that the Sagoths have a spoken language, but they cannot comprehend it, or how it manifests itself, since they have no auditory apparatus.

Again we do not know whether these sensations originate in the auditory apparatus and/or in the auditory cortex, or whether they are flashes of direct, molecular sensations in other areas.

It is not clear why Heinlein chose such an unpretty word for such a beautiful concept (maybe it is euphonious to the Martian auditory apparatus); it has, nevertheless, caught on.

Let us suppose that binary oppositions are natural in the sound system of a language, that because of the physical properties of our auditory apparatus it is easier for us to distinguish x/not-x-type contrasts.

He yelled at Alexandra, his voice thin and strange to him as it was sustained through the bones and cavities of his body rather than the neat chain of the auditory apparatus: "Where is it?

The speaker uses a vocal tract (containing most of the speech organs) to produce speech sounds, and the hearer employs an auditory apparatus (the sense of hearing) to receive and process the speech sounds.

Another thing: When you plug the headset into the armrest of your chair, it's always a click too low for dialogue, but a click too loud to be borne by human auditory apparatus once the police chase starts.